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0 pointsenos_feedler5y ago0 comments

I think WASM success won't be measured by market share gain on the web, but by number of new non-browser things that are programmed with WASM.

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zlsa5y ago· 2 in thread

Agreed. An interesting example is the new Microsoft Flight Simulator, which uses WASM[0] as a sandboxed language to create airplane gauges and custom flight models (HN discussion[1]).

[0]: https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/getting-started-with-wa... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24281400

enos_feedlerOP5y ago

Very Cool!

Stevvo5y ago

In that specific situation I find it very uncool. It's targeted only by C++, a language that is far too complex to have any business being used as a scripting language to make needles move on a virtual altimeter. You get all of the drawbacks with none of the benefits of a C++.

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dmt05y ago

EOS blockchain contracts are compiled to WASM.

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